Being good in Ramadan
Ambivalence, fragmentation, and the moral self in the lives of young Egyptians
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20204299 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Samuli Schielke (0000-0001-6341-5084, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | s1 |
| Publication date | 2009-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1359-0987 • E-ISSN: 1467-9655 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01540.x |
| OpenAlex | W1994195364 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 212 |
| References cited | 28 |
So much has been written in recent years on Muslims who consciously and consistently aim to be pious, moral, and disciplined that the vast majority of Muslims who – like most of humankind – are sometimes but not always pious, at times immoral, and often undisciplined have remained in the shadow of an image of Islam as a perfectionist project of self‐discipline. Taking the month of Ramadan, as a time of exceptional piety, as a starting‐point, this paper tries to account for the different views and experiences that young people of Muslim faith in a northern Egyptian village articulate, the models of action and subjectivity they have access to, and the contradictory outcomes that the Islamic revivalist ideal of perfection has for some of them. Résumé Il a tellement été question, ces dernières années, de musulmans consciemment et constamment soucieux d’être pieux, moraux et disciplinés que la grande majorité des musulmans, qui sont parfois pieux mais pas toujours, parfois immoraux et souvent indisciplinés, comme le reste de l’humanité, est restée dans l’ombre de cette image de l’islam comme projet d’autodiscipline perfectionniste. En prenant pour point de départ le Ramadan, période de piété particulière, l’auteur tente de rendre compte de différents points de vue exprimés par les jeunes musulmans d’un village du Nord de l’Égypte, des modèle d’action et de subjectivité qui leur sont ouverts et des résultats contradictoires que donne pour certains d’entre eux l’idéal de perfection portée par l’idée d’un renouveau islamique
Ambivalence · Epistemology · Ethnology · Faith · Humanities · Islam · Piety · Sociology · Subjectivity · Theology · Islamic Studies and History · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion, Society, and Development · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 212 |
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| Citations per year | 12,47 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 202 |